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Nadine Gordimer quotes about writing

South african Novelist November 20, 1923

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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and plac? a single book written from different stages of your ability. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and..."
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Nadine Gordimer
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. Nadine Gordimer
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down. Nadine Gordimer
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my..."
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. Nadine Gordimer

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